Re: [Swarm-Support] Problems in compiling with SuSE Linux

[Bill Northcott]

On 17/01/2004, at 7:18 PM, Francesco Pappalardo wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> I have problems when I attempy to compile from source SWARM.
> I use gcc v. 3.3.1 with SuSE Linux 9.0
>
> The following error is produced:
>
> ---------------------------
> Object.m: In function `+[Object new]':
> Object.m:51: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break 
> strict-aliasi
> ng rules
> make[4]: *** [Object.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/f/SWARM/swarm-2002-05-14/libobjc'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/f/SWARM/swarm-2002-05-14/libobjc'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/f/SWARM/swarm-2002-05-14/libobjc'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/f/SWARM/swarm-2002-05-14'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ----------------------------

I think you need a more up to date version of the source code.  gcc 3.3 
has much stricter checking than previous versions.

It is not that the code is fixed in more recent versions, we just added 
compiler options to suppress the errors!  It is a little job someone 
might like to do. <g>

Bill Northcott